Re: UI freeze exception

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hi Razvan, Carlos,

> I would like to ask for an UI freeze exception for the integration of
> compressed files support in Nautilus:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768646,
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770199.
>
> The main added UI elements are context menu items for extraction and
> compression and also a dialog for creating archives:
> Context menu items for extraction
> Compression dialog
>
> Since 2013 we have been trying to include this feature in Nautilus. Now as a
> Google Summer of Code we just finished it together with support from the
> autoar library. We think it's the best moment to release this work and keep
> the engage and improvements on autoar coming to help us define a final
> public API. Also, we coordinated with the file roller maintainer and agreed
> on removing the Nautilus extension from the file-roller repository for this
> release.

I'll be fine with this; but I have to note Nautilus didn't get any
3.21. release yet, and getting a first development release at 3.21.91
is way too late.


        Fred